Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Most Harvard graduates of years think of Arthur Beane especially in connection with the Phillips Brooks House, but many will remember how very wide his laterests were and how much he did for individuals in many sorts of relations. When the Freshman Dormitories were started, he was one of those most interested in them and one who, by constant visiting of individuals, helped to give new members of the University community their first ideas of what Harvard means and what life here is all about. This interest in the individual was one of the outstanding features of his character...
...years as a Yale coach and in his later advisory capacity. "The passing of Walter Camp", he said, "is a great loss to athletics both in schools and in colleges. He retained in middle life the vigor and the enthusiasms of youth to a remarkable degree. His influence was wide and significant and was always exercised in the best directions...
...Passed a Senate resolution extending U. S. sovereignty to Swain's Island, about 200 miles northeast of American Samoa. The island is owned by an U. S. citizen, Alexander Jennings, is a mile wide and a mile and a half long, has about 70 inhabitants including 40 children. (Went to the President.) ¶ Adopted a Senate resolution providing for the completion of the historic frieze in the rotunda of the Capitol. (Went to the President.) ¶ Adopted a Senate resolution providing that donations "of the best specimens of early American furniture and furnishings" be accepted...
...been inclined to celebrate this book with song and shouting. Clearly, it surpasses most in rapidity, precision, force. Its people breathe. Its consequences descend inevitably. Its arraignments are terse, detached, restrained; and if its pleasantries are few and curt, so are its unpleasantries. The author's instrument had wide range-from the wild, high notes of Bohemia to the sodden, dry thumps of English respectability. An undisciplined performer might have slipped into coarse discords and fierce hurricanoes of sound and fury. Miss Kennedy, possibly because she is English, showed her mettle. The Author. Margaret Kennedy, now 29, has shown...
Asked what has been learned concerning the nature of the shock last night, Professor Daly replied that nothing definite has yet been determined. "The quake was extraordinary," he declared, "both for its strength and the wide area of disturbance. The center seems to have been about 100 miles distant from Boston either to the cast or west." Professor J. B. Woodworth, the University seismologist, is absent on sabbatical leave in Florida and hence cannot read the record of the seismograph. The cylinder has therefore been shellacked, and will be sent to Washington for study...